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Determinants of outcome after surgical treatment of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries.
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PMID:  20850144     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVES: Identification of variables influencing surgical outcome in patients treated for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries. METHODS: A total of 90 consecutive patients (median age, 12 months; range, 20 days to 35 years), who had primarily undergone either 1-stage unifocalization (n = 69) or palliation to promote native pulmonary arterial development (n = 21), were studied. Chromosome 22q11 deletion had occurred in 37% of the cases. Ventricular septal defect closure was accomplished in 70 patients (78%), with a mean postoperative right/left ventricular pressure ratio of 0.48 ± 0.14. RESULTS: The rate of 14-year survival, freedom from conduit reintervention, and freedom from percutaneous intervention on the pulmonary arteries was 75%, 46%, and 52%, respectively. At a median interval of 95 months (range, 1.5-164 months), the right/left ventricular pressure ratio did not differ significantly from early postoperatively. Univariate analysis showed that an absence of confluent intrapericardial pulmonary arteries favorably affected the postoperative right/left ventricular pressure ratio after ventricular septal defect closure (P = .04). Kaplan-Meier estimates showed age of 30 days or younger (P = .0004) and weight of 3 kg or less (P = .0004) at unifocalization and chromosome 22q11 deletion (P = .001) significantly affected survival. Chromosome 22q11 deletion was significantly associated with mortality, even in the Cox regression model (hazard ratio, 8.26; P = .003). Finally, ventricular septal defect closure during single-stage and single/multiple-stage procedures significantly correlated with both early (P = .0013 and P < .00001, respectively) and overall (P = .013 and P = .0007, respectively) survival. CONCLUSIONS: The results of surgery were satisfactory and durable, despite the need for repeated percutaneous or surgical reinterventions. The outcomes were negatively affected by neonatal age and low body weight and positively affected by simultaneous or staged ventricular septal defect closure. Finally, chromosome 22q11 deletion remained an independent variable affecting survival.
Authors:
Adriano Carotti; Sonia B Albanese; Sergio Filippelli; Lucilla Ravà; Paolo Guccione; Giacomo Pongiglione; Roberto M Di Donato
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-09-17
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery     Volume:  140     ISSN:  1097-685X     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.     Publication Date:  2010 Nov 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-10-18     Completed Date:  2010-11-08     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0376343     Medline TA:  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1092-103     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
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Copyright © 2010 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy. a.carotti@alice.it
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aorta / physiopathology*
Body Weight
Cardiac Surgical Procedures* / adverse effects,  mortality
Child
Child, Preschool
Chromosome Deletion
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
Collateral Circulation*
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / genetics,  mortality,  physiopathology,  surgery*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Kaplan-Meiers Estimate
Palliative Care
Proportional Hazards Models
Pulmonary Atresia / genetics,  mortality,  physiopathology,  surgery*
Pulmonary Circulation*
Regional Blood Flow
Reoperation
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Rome
Tetralogy of Fallot / genetics,  mortality,  physiopathology,  surgery*
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function, Left
Ventricular Pressure
Young Adult

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